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Un libro imprescindible para descubrir las voces e historias ocultas de mujeres que desafiaron el estigma de la soltería.Hasta hace no mucho tiempo, las mujeres que no se casaban eran estigmatizadas como raras, neuroticas, amargadas, poco agraciadas o, directamente, fracasadas. Llevaban sobre los hombros una pesada losa que producia, en el mejor de los casos, lastima.El matrimonio ha sido la norma durante siglos, el que marcaba la llegada a la edad adulta de la mujer y, generalmente, su medio para subsistir. Y en el caso concreto de nuestro pais de forma muchisimo mas acusada, porque arrastramos cuarenta años de dictadura en la que unas ideas determinadas de la feminidad, asi como de la masculinidad, fueron parte fundamental del programa ideologico: la mujer ocupaba un papel central en la construccion del regimen tras la guerra, pero con la funcion eminente de ser la madre de la familia.A traves de la experiencia personal de veinte mujeres que nunca se han casado, obras literarias, documentos tanto periodisticos como audiovisuales y a medio camino entre evocacion y sociologia, Manuel Jimenez Nuñez busca reivindicar la memoria y dar a conocer a las nuevas generaciones el arquetipo femenino de la solterona.Decia Carmen Martin Gaite que una de las conclusiones a las que habia llegado, despues de estudiarlo mucho y darle muchas vueltas, es que a las solteras que no van a encontrar marido se las margina o se las caricaturiza, pero nunca se habla realmente con ellas. En este libro hablamos con ellas y les damos la voz cantante.

A History of Polar Exploration in 50 Objects covers just over 150 years of polar exploration during which a mysterious southern continent and an elusive northern sea-route became less incognita and increasingly charted and understood.The objects of the title include instruments used by explorers and scientists, their means of transport and representations of previously unrecorded sights and creatures. Others evidence how explorers financed expeditions, survived during them or shed light on the lives of those who awaited their return in an era before the modern communications now taken for granted. While individual objects are of their own time, they form part of a continuum of polar exploration; they also evidence networks and collaborations which bind polar explorers and scientists to each other, to other mariners and those living in or near polar regions.The fifty objects include: Mrs Elizabeth Cooks ditty-box made of wood from HMS Resolution. John Rosss long-preserved canister of meat A rock marker left by James Clark Ross for his best friend, Frank Crozier John Raes surveying octant Edward Wilsons portable paintbox Ernest Shackletons Farthest South sledging-compass A samurai sword Matthew Hensons North Pole expedition fur suit Roald Amundsens fjord-side refuge HMS Erebuss long-silent bellSome objects remain in polar regions, others are in public spaces, museums, archives and galleries all over the world. They and the stories relating to them are illustrated with almost 150 images, some rarely or not previously published.A History of Polar Exploration in 50 Objects is Anne Strathies fourth book on polar regions and is the culmination of approaching fifteen years of research and travel in polar regions and in Britain and other countries lying between the two extremes.